Thursday, June 28, 2012

Okay this is so weird and cool at the same time. I am now all over the web, again. In the old days it was the silly websites I put together for fanfiction and poetry and my drawings. Now it is my actual published work. I enjoyed it in the old days but now...now it fills in a part of yourself that you didn't know you had.

I am showing up on places like ITunes, Versent Books, Inktera and of course my publishers site. Now the more places I show up the more chance that someone will actually decide to buy my work. While the paperback over on Amazon is pretty pricy, the Ebook copy on Itunes is very affordable at 99 cents. So I am hoping...really really hoping that soon I will see some movement.

I have even posted Gates up on Craig s list and Kijiji. Now it felt weird putting my book up on those sites but it needs to be done right? I am right now just sitting here trying to decide if I should put Knight Protector up on those two sites. It is a novella and a fun one in my opinion. Course I wrote it so my opinion isn't necessarily unbiased right?

Okay back to writing and reading and trying to think of other ways to get the nice people out there to actually pick up my words and reading them.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Okay while I am done the main writing part of Hope Everlasting, yes I do need to do some editing. That is expected. But I have decided for a few days to step away from Harry and friends and go back to a much older story. Oh my was I surprised to get an email begging me to go back to Battle of the Star Beast. Now that story was one of the ones I lost when I went through the computer crashes years back. I had forgotten I had posted it up on one of the fiction sites. Lets not say which one. So I went and got my files from over there and since they were in htm I had to copy and paste it into a doc file.

Yeah it has been a LONG time since I wrote this one. Okay the story is a good one, a mix of Lord of the Rings style fantasy and Star Wars style science fiction. Yeah I wanted to do an epic and I always wanted to see a cross of science fiction and fantasy with the whole other planes etc. But oh my this story needs some work. Parts are good and worth working on. Parts are written really well, other parts you can tell I wrote over a decade ago.

I'm not sure just how much more work I will do on this right now. There are forty odd pages to go through right now. Fragments of sentences, descriptions that need to be reworked and pacing that needs fixing but I can do it. Once I get through that I should be able to dredge out of my memory exactly where I planned on bringing this story.

When I came up with it I had planned on a three book arc. Full books, not my usual short stories to novella length. And who knows it might happen. I will toss between this and other things of course. After all I have things like Whether to Save Face or Family, an urban fantasy, Death Walks through, the collection of shorts with Death in them. And a bunch of other things. Hell I have the third in the Saga of Loralil Greyfox books in process too. And that is just the bigger files. All of you know I have up to 150 odd stories in the works. Just settling on one to work is the hard part.

Well back to editing Star Beast. Seeing what is worth keeping and what needs rewriting. Then I may just take a few hours off to watch a movie and do some Minecrafting. If my head doesn't decide I need to just close my eyes for a few hours.

Okay those of you who want to read the old old old copy of this it is over on literotica.com Yeah I said an erotica site. After all there is erotic elements to this story that make it not reading material for the younger set. But here you go the link:

There are other stories over there. Some complete, some not. Some really not bad...others well...lets just say they are a bit more like porn. As I have said before I can write anything. I don't say it is good but I have done children stories to erotica. Something for everyone. enjoy.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Well now that I have gotten some reviews it is time to work. Hope Everlasting is moving along. Not as fast as I would like but that is how it is when I work. I have to do some bridging scenes. I know what will happen once the hero meets the villain but getting the hero to the villain is the long part. After all you cant have them just meet face to face without some trouble. While this villain isnt as bad as some of the others I have written, he is still a villain. He wants something for nothing, wants something he thinks he can take that he doesn't deserve.

Should be fun. So should I put someone behind the scenes pulling his strings. It would be interesting and hopefully not too cliche. I am trying to avoid those nasty cliches.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Okay part of being a writer is finding readers right? So if they won't come to you, you have to go to them. Luckily there are people on the groups I have joined in the past two months who are interested in reviewing. Now I don't expect a glowing, OMG review, just a review to show people are reading my work. So I am going to try a few out.

Shelfari has been interesting. It has let me review some of the god awful pile of books I have read over the years. So lets see what happens.

Found a new place to play called Waatpad. They have people who design bookcovers for free and book trailers. Now I can do my own trailers. Now if I could just feel like I am doing better covers. Well we will see how this goes.

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Sun is shining and my mood is sooo much better. Your writer here is thinking that it might be time to try other forms of expression. Yeah I write, god do I write. My sotries are all jumbled up in my head and poems only come out during my dark times. I should have written poetry yesterday. My camera gets a work out as nature opens her arms to us. The sun on a leaf, a bug settling down on a branch or a frog hopping in the water. Okay now I want to go take more photos. Maybe I should but I started this cause I have been thinking about painting.

Now I have never been the best at the visual arts. I have some stuff up over on Elfwood. Drawn ages ago, when my kids were little and I still had art supplies that were mine and only mine. I feel the need from time to time to draw and well I no longer have the supplies. I would love a nice sketch pad that I wouldn't have to share with my youngest. On a nice warm morning I could go over to the stream and okay work my way down to the ground and just sketch nature. Maybe make pictures with faeries and unicorns and dragons in the nature around me. I may not be as good as many of my friends but at one time I had a good eye and the ability to draw. Do I still have it? Good question. While baking and crocheting give me an outlet for more tactile expressions of my soul they aren't the same are they?

And something new I want to try is painting. The dollar stores here have stretched canvas and paints and brushes really cheap. I have been tossing this about in my mind for months now. It wouldn't be too expensive this way. After all a canvas for a buck or two, paints for the same and a bunch of brushes. Why not? Yeah we have water color paints and my hubby's paints but I don't want to use his good stuff for what might just be junk.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Okay so the opening line of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald should be used for a super hero film. The song now should be a movie. I know it has inspired me to write another tale. Okay start to write. Somehow I think Harry might like it better if I finish Hope Everlasting first. I had started a short fic about the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald but now that I am working with Harry more I think I need to change the story. Harry is a great character but having him over by Detroit would be weird. He is the Guardian of Nashua. Hmmm...maybe I could change the story and had the wreck happen here on the big lake. Georgian bay I am sure has some history with ship wrecks. Heck the bay is huge, even if it isnt on one of big lakes it is still on a LARGE lake. Lake Simcoe in fact. I should get my new friends (and old) here in my new hometown to give me some history so I can come up with tales. Stories of urban myths and legends set in this small Canadian city that is so like Nashua.

Inspiration...it strikes hard when it does. Gotta love it. Love how music can lead to words and words to music. The grand circle of life.

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Now anyone who knows me knows that I tend to listen to a lot of music. Weird, contemporary, pop, country, just music. Songs tend to spring ideas into the fertile ground known as my imagination.

But once an idea is started sometimes I have to find the songs that will continue the tale. Right now there is a Gregorian chant playing in the background. While good for some things, not sure it will work on Harry. He is a bit more a good old bluegrassy boy. Not a gun weilding, I have the right to shoot you for just being in the wrong place knid. More the life gave me a ton of lemons, drowning in lemonaid type.

But hey he has a sense of humor for sure. And a sense of right and wrong. What else can you ask for in a guardian and hero right? So I think this next son, Eyes of a Child fits his new job. Finding the kidnapped child of two eternals.

Friday, June 8, 2012

Well looks like I will now be found over on Barnes and Noble, along with Amazon. Gates just showed up there at a little less than the Amazon price. I don't mind the reduction, after all it is a little pricey for a paperback. And as I have been approved by Smashwords for their premium catalog, we should be seeing Knight Protector over there soon. Can't wait to see what reaction this has.

Here is the opening of the newest story I am working on. It is called Hope Everlasting and is set in the world of One More All Hallows Eve. I like Harry. He is not a rip off of Harry Dresden. I wrote All Hallows years before I read the Dresden Files. So here goes. Hope who ever is reading this has an opinion on this one.

***

It
was still dark when I came out of Undercity but it was lighter than it was
below.I could hear them though before
I saw them.Two large, horrible smells
were blocking the alley that led back to my car.I sighed, preparing to step back when I heard a soft cry.Normally I ignored the occasional mugging by
the street trash on each other but something about that cry made me step
forward.

As I
got closer I saw two of the least savory creatures that dwelled in
Undercity.They had backed a woman into
a corner between the crumbling building on the right and a rusted out dumpster
on the left.They were tall, even half
stooped over as they terrorized the much smaller human before them."HE says bring the shiny one, we
bring."The one on the left said
in a voice that went past gravelly to stone on stone grinding.Definitely a troll with his ugly cousin, a
pair I recognized.A pair of two bit
thugs who hired out to the one with the most meat.Yes meat.It was hard in
these modern times to find a good meal when you weren't near a stockyards.

****

Yeah told as a first person. I have a few of them and I tend to set them in my old home town of Nashua, NH. If any of you know Nashua, you will recognize the streets. I have changed things of course.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Since I am getting my voice out there why not another blog right? After all in today's world a writer has to flog themselves all over to find readers.

This one looked interesting and I think I will post up some of my not for sale words here and hope I can spark others to read the for sale stuff.

But what to post? Should i put up the fanfiction which has given me a small following? The poetry, which is odd and not really lyrical? The erotica, that seems to have a LOT of readers but well never is gonna earn me anything? We will see. After all it is the web and the more you get yourself out there the more likely someone will read it.

Course having my words up on Wordpress and LiveJournal for blogs, on Amazon for kindle short story ebooks, Smashwords for one of my novellas in ebook format and my paperback at both Morebooks.de and Amazon.com would seem a lot right?

But then i have fanfiction on fanfiction.net and poetry on fictionpress.com and even that other stuff on literotica.com.

Yeah this is a babble but new blogs make me do that. I should close this and move onto my other places. Need to find that elusive name for the villain in my Harry Novella. What a name? Harry Novella. I think the series should be called "The Guardian of Nashua." or some such. After all it is set in my old hometown. A different hometown but still the streets are the same as when I lived there. So we don't have trolls or Eternals living at the homeless shelters but they could be.